Mirantis, provider of
OpenStack services, has raised $10m in their its second funding
round, bringing on board three major companies in the process:
Ericsson, Red Hat and SAP Ventures.

The three join WestSummit Capital and the investment
arms of Dell and Intel, which collectively invested $10m during the
initial funding round in January. WestSummit Capital, a Chinese
company, led and contributed to both rounds.

Along with the funding news, the company have today
released a Grizzly-compatible build of open-source deployment kit
called Fuel. An inevitable
paid version for subscribers is coming later this year.

Mirantis now finds itself with not only a bulging
wallet, but a phone book full of powerful friends, including three
of the OpenStack Foundation’s eight platinum
sponsors. Indeed, Mirantis boss Adrian Ionel says that the
latest investment “is about more than capital”, allowing for
“integration of Mirantis’ Fuel technology and services with key
players in IT”.

Details of this integration are still sketchy, but the
press release suggests that Mirantis will aid Ericsson and SAP
in building their own OpenStack-powered infrastructures. Meanwhile,
Red Hat, which has become the
largest single contributor to the OpenStack codebase, is
gearing up to launch its own commercial distribution. According to
Brian Stevens, Red Hat CTO, the collaboration will “help
accelerate” enterprise adoption.